This 41-year-old woman complained of a scratchy sensation in her right eye of three months’ duration. On external inspection, her eyes appeared normal, but raising the right upper lid unveiled a salmon-colored conjunctival mass. Physical examination was otherwise unremarkable, and results of conventional laboratory studies were normal.
Biopsy of the mass showed diffuse, well differentiated, B-cell lymphocytic lymphoma. With localized radiotherapy, the conjunctival lesion disappeared